Learn how to spot—and outsmart—behind-the-scenes influences at work every time your doctor writes a prescription, orders a test, or selects a treatment plan.
Know what’s driving your doctor’s decisions—and how to protect yourself.
Sometimes your health care goes smoothly. Your physician listens, examines you, comes up with a thoughtful treatment plan, and off you go to resume your life. Then, there’s the rest of the time. You are pushed along from one specialist to the next, none bothering to talk to one another. You are overtreated with CT-scans, medications, even surgeries you don’t need. Then your prescriptions interact, leaving you even sicker.
Through compelling real-life stories, Health Your Self reveals the behind-the-scenes forces that compromise your medical care at every phase of life, from birth to old age.
Health Your Self arms you with tools to uncover these hidden forces and practical steps to get the care you need. Health Your Self turns you into a healthy skeptic whenever you seek medical help. Question, discern, and evaluate your situation with Health Your Self’s invaluable insights and advice.
Learn how to spot—and outsmart—behind-the-scenes influences at work every time your doctor writes a prescription, orders a test, or selects a treatment plan.
Know what’s driving your doctor’s decisions—and how to protect yourself.
Sometimes your health care goes smoothly. Your physician listens, examines you, comes up with a thoughtful treatment plan, and off you go to resume your life. Then, there’s the rest of the time. You are pushed along from one specialist to the next, none bothering to talk to one another. You are overtreated with CT-scans, medications, even surgeries you don’t need. Then your prescriptions interact, leaving you even sicker.
Through compelling real-life stories, Health Your Self reveals the behind-the-scenes forces that compromise your medical care at every phase of life, from birth to old age.
Health Your Self arms you with tools to uncover these hidden forces and practical steps to get the care you need. Health Your Self turns you into a healthy skeptic whenever you seek medical help. Question, discern, and evaluate your situation with Health Your Self’s invaluable insights and advice.